Nokia N97 mini user reviews

Vordyn 20 November 2009

Good: Fully featured phone, Resistive touch screen, Inbuilt Web browser supports flash, Qwerty Keypad

Bad: OS "Niggles", Should have included a stylus.

Comment: Mostly I agree with Flora's review, however I disagree with her comments on the keyboard, as I find there is a fair bit of travel.

I put the resistive touch screen as a plus as I find them slightly more accurate than capacitive, however I think a stylus should have been provided.

The OS is a bit antiquated .... and requires lot's of menu use.... this phone can run multiple apps at once, however I found the need to into a menu and exit the app a chore, until l I found (undocumented) that the End Call key on the phone closes apps.

The Web browser is competent and can display flash, however can be a little sluggish at times.

I would suggest using the standard Messaging app over the Email app as I found this synced up to my AOL e-mail's folders alot more accurately.

Homescreen Widgets are a nice feature ... however it's good to bear in mind that some widgets, Facebook, Email, will consume more batterly life as they check for updates.

Synching to the computer has it's hassles as well, the new Ovi software leaves alot to be desired. Other bugs that i've noticed is that my Messaging apps gets kicked out of the phones "Mass Storage" and has to default to phone memory after I have connected via usb in "Mass storage" mode, it can be reset back to Mass Storage.

It's a phone with ups and downs.... hopefully firmware updates will iron out some of this phones relatively minor wrinkles.